Principal Investigator(s):
United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Bureau of Justice Statistics

Summary:

This file provides data on federal, state, and local
governmental expenditures and employment for criminal justice
activities in the United States. Information is supplied on police
protection, judicial and legal services, and correctional institutions
and agencies. Variables describing each of these criminal justice
functions include number of and payroll for full-time, part-time, and
full-time-equivalent employees, current total and general
expenditures, capital outlay, and intergovernmental expenditures.

This file provides data on federal, state, and local
governmental expenditures and employment for criminal justice
activities in the United States. Information is supplied on police
protection, judicial and legal services, and correctional institutions
and agencies. Variables describing each of these criminal justice
functions include number of and payroll for full-time, part-time, and
full-time-equivalent employees, current total and general
expenditures, capital outlay, and intergovernmental expenditures.

Dataset(s)

Study Description

Citation

U.S. Dept. of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics. EXPENDITURE AND EMPLOYMENT DATA FOR THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM [UNITED STATES]: CJEE EXTRACTS FILE, 1999. Conducted by U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. ICPSR ed. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 2002. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03409.v1

Universe:
All federal, state, and local governments in the United
States.

Data Type(s):
aggregate data, and survey data

Data Collection Notes:

The codebook for this collection is provided by ICPSR
as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format was
developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF
reader software, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how
to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided on the ICPSR Web
site.

Methodology

Sample:
Larger governments were selected with certainty. Smaller
governments were selected using probability sampling based on a ratio
of governmental expenditures or indebtedness to the total expenditures
and indebtedness of all noncertainty governments in specified groups.

Data Source:

official government reports and records, central data
collection agencies, and mail surveys

Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of
disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major
statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to
these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

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